What to do when your kid doesn't want to go to school, and other pressing questions

About this episode

The episode discusses strategies for dealing with children's reluctance to attend school and features a live event announcement.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit motherofitall.substack.com Did you hear?! We’re recording our 100th episode LIVE in San Francisco on May 8th as part of a series with KALW (91.7 FM). Get tickets your here! We will be joined by Berkeley-based poet Rachel Richardson, and KALW will be airing excerpts from our show all week long leading up to the live event. In this episode for our lovely paid subscribers (thank you…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sarah, Miranda

Guest: Rachel Richardson

Topics covered

• school reluctance
• parenting advice
• live events
• poetry
• family dynamics

Keywords

• school
• parenting
• children
• live podcast
• Rachel Richardson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KALW

Places: San Francisco

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